Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leasing the Moose River Gold Mine. Last week Dr. Robertson & partner were ready to take the mine's first gold brick to the mint. Night before the big day, the two men and their timekeeper, Alfred Scadding, went down into the mine at 7 p. m. for a tour of inspection...
...observation platform Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson spoke his good wishes into a microphone which gave him a nationwide audience. Without topcoat or hat but wearing white gloves was fair-haired Leopold Stokowski, exulting not only over the tour to come but because there is a prospect of a European trip next season. Cameras clicked rapidly while Frances A. Wister of the Orchestra Board presented Conductor Stokowski with a fox-terrier pup named Nipper. The New York Philharmonic players sent money to buy each of the travelers a beer. Led by Trumpeter Saul Caston, the Orchestra's brasses blew...
...Philadelphia's Broad Street Station the send-off was grandly staged. Everyday travelers were befuddled by the confusion. A great crowd jammed the dingy old terminal, fairly fought to be near the track where a train was labeled PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA-RCA VICTOR TOUR...
...Dream tours have been a stock joke in Philadelphia for years. Stokowski has talked of taking the Philadelphia Orchestra to Europe, South America, the Orient. One reason for his tiff with his directors last season was their failure to see their way clear to financing a tour while there was a considerable deficit at home (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934 et seq.). The angel that suddenly popped up was RCA Victor, for which Stokowski and his orchestra make many a red-seal phonograph record. RCA Victor underwrote the current tour for $250,000, hoping to get back much...
Among those pulled to safety in the Pan American rescue launch were onetime Actress Claiborne Foster (Mrs. Maxwell Rice) and famed Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi, bound on a South American tour. In the melee someone trod violently on the musician's wrist. He announced sadly that he would not be able to play for several months...